Economy

The Challenge Trump Still Faces On The Economy
The Winston Group’s David Winston is quoted in an article in today’s Wall Street Journal about President Trump’s address to Congress last night. Read the full piece here.

Washington Never Returned To Pre-COVID Spending Levels
Washington is in an uproar over DOGE’s cost-cutting measures, but the inconvenient truth is that the federal government never returned to pre-COVID spending levels after the pandemic was over. Former President Biden announced COVID was over on September 18, 2022. On April 10, 2023, he signed the termination of the COVID-19 national emergency

President Biden’s Final Score On Inflation
This morning’s inflation report came in hot with a 3% year over year Consumer Price Index. With this report being for the month of January, today’s result is the final score on inflation for the Biden presidency, putting the cumulative rate of inflation since the Biden inaugural month to the last

Do Voters Care About the Debt?
Congressional Republicans often think that voters don’t care about the national debt, but our research shows that voters care more than lawmakers may realize. This research consisted of a series of listening sessions with voters and a national survey (January 7-10) of 1200 registered voters. In a series of beliefs,

House Budget Committee: The Republican Budget Opportunity (via Gingrich360)
The Winston Group’s recent survey numbers, in Newt Gingrich’s recent column, cited today by the US House Committee on the Budget: Read the full piece here.

Newt Gingrich: The Republican Budget Opportunity
Newt Gingrich cites our new survey numbers in his commentary today: The Winston Group made a series of important findings after running focus groups and a survey of 1,200 registered voters in January: “1.) Inflation was the construct by which people viewed the economy and taxes. As a result, the most important